Violence in Relation to Gender and Sexuality the Focus at Austen Riggs Center's Annual Fall Conference
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Daily headlines report starting violence suggesting a deepening disorder within our social fabric. The 2015 Erikson Institute Fall Conference for clinicians and scholars at the Austen Riggs Center, Violence in Relation to Gender and Sexuality, will bring a psychoanalytic perspective to a multidisciplinary conversation about violence occurring in relation to gender and sexuality.
The one-day conference will be Saturday, October 17, 8:30am to 5:00pm (followed by a reception) with presentations and commentary by:
- Jessica Yakeley, MD, a consultant psychiatrist in forensic psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic and director of medical education and associate medical director for the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, will present Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Understanding of Violence: The Influence of Gender on Psychogenesis, Manifestations and Treatment.
- Ken Corbett, PhD, an assistant clinical professor of psychology at the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at New York University, will present A Murder Over a Girl.
- Peggy Reeves Sanday, PhD, professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught in the anthropology department from l972 to 2010, will present A Meta-cultural Approach to Sexual Assault: "I desire mercy and not sacrifice."
- Noëlle McAfee, PhD, professor of Philosophy at Emory University and a candidate at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute, will present Sex Crimes and the Public Square: Violence as a Means of Political Silence.
Conference Director Jane G. Tillman, PhD, states, "Violence occurring in the sphere of gender and sexuality takes many forms. This conference provides an opportunity for clinicians and scholars to enter a wider discourse about violence and deepen our understanding of the roots of this social problem."
Continuing education credits will be offered at this conference. For more information or to register, please visit: www.austenriggs.org/2015-Fall-Conference. The registration fee of $175 includes breakfast, lunch and the conference reception on Saturday.
About the Austen Riggs Center
Austen Riggs Center, a leading psychiatric hospital and residential treatment program, has been serving adults since 1919. Within a completely open setting, patients are provided immersion in an intensive treatment milieu that emphasizes respectful engagement. Individual, four times/weekly, psychodynamic psychotherapy is provided by doctors on staff. www.austenriggs.org.
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